The influence of informal institutions on informal sector entrepreneurship: A study of Nigeria’s hand-woven textile industry

Citation:Ogunsade, I.A. and Obembe, D. (2016) The influence of informal institutions on informal sector entrepreneurship: a study of Nigeria's hand-woven textile industry. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2016.1202093

Abstract:

This paper draws on the institutional theory framework to explore the prevalence of
entrepreneurship in the informal economy in Nigeria. An interpretive approach was
taken in analyzing open-ended interview data collected from 26 entrepreneurs in the
hand-woven textile industry in the southwestern region of Nigeria. Our findings show
that beyond regulatory burden or survivalist economic necessity, the enterprise culture
in the Nigerian informal economy is determined by value-driven criteria of
sociocultural and normative environment that constitute part of the cognitive process
of entrepreneurial emergence in a typical institutional context.

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